Who Was Alive
August Krogh
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August Krogh

Danish physiologist

Born 15 November 1874 · died 13 September 1949, aged 74
Also known as Schack August Steenberg Krogh

Who was alive at the same time as August Krogh?

  1. Victor Hugo, 1802 – 1885
  2. Charles Darwin, 1809 – 1882
  3. Karl Marx, 1818 – 1883
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1821 – 1881
  5. Leo Tolstoy, 1828 – 1910
  6. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 – 1900
  7. Thomas Edison, 1847 – 1931
  8. Vincent van Gogh, 1853 – 1890
  9. Sigmund Freud, 1856 – 1939
  10. Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
  11. Vladimir Lenin, 1870 – 1924
  12. August Krogh, 1874 – 1949
  13. Winston Churchill, 1874 – 1965
  14. Joseph Stalin, 1878 – 1953
  15. Albert Einstein, 1879 – 1955
  16. Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973
  17. Charlie Chaplin, 1889 – 1977
  18. Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945
  19. Ronald Reagan, 1911 – 2004
  20. Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013
  21. Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
  22. Joe Biden, born 1942
  23. Donald Trump, born 1946
  24. George W. Bush, born 1946

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When August Krogh was born, Karl Marx was 56, Vladimir Lenin was 4, Mahatma Gandhi was 5, Leo Tolstoy was 46 and Charles Darwin was 65.

When August Krogh died, Donald Trump was 3, Albert Einstein was 70, Ronald Reagan was 38, Nelson Mandela was 31 and George W. Bush was 3.

Born during August Krogh’s lifetime: Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, Joseph Stalin and Joe Biden.

Not quite contemporaries: Barack Obama was born about 12 years after August Krogh died, Michael Jackson was born about 9 years after August Krogh died, Vladimir Putin was born about 3 years after August Krogh died and Abraham Lincoln died about 9 years before August Krogh was born.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

2,884 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as August Krogh. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1912.

  1. Donald Trump born 1946
  2. Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945
  3. Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
  4. Karl Marx 1818 – 1883
  5. Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004
  6. Vladimir Lenin 1870 – 1924
  7. Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
  8. Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948
  9. Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
  10. George W. Bush born 1946
  11. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882
  12. Joseph Stalin 1878 – 1953
  13. Joe Biden born 1942
  14. Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
  15. Vincent van Gogh 1853 – 1890
  16. Pablo Picasso 1881 – 1973
  17. Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965
  18. Charlie Chaplin 1889 – 1977
  19. Fyodor Dostoevsky 1821 – 1881
  20. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 – 1900
  21. Elizabeth II 1926 – 2022
  22. Thomas Edison 1847 – 1931
  23. Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
  24. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk c. 1880 – 1938
  25. Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
  26. John F. Kennedy 1917 – 1963
  27. Marie Curie 1867 – 1934
  28. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
  29. Salvador Dalí 1904 – 1989
  30. Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
  31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 – 1945
  32. Hans Christian Andersen 1805 – 1875
  33. Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
  34. Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
  35. Marilyn Monroe 1926 – 1962
  36. Pope Francis 1936 – 2025
  37. Mao Zedong 1893 – 1976
  38. Che Guevara 1928 – 1967
  39. Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
  40. Bill Clinton born 1946
  41. Charles de Gaulle 1890 – 1970
  42. Otto von Bismarck 1815 – 1898
  43. Nikola Tesla 1856 – 1943
  44. Neil Armstrong 1930 – 2012
  45. Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
  46. Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977
  47. Louis Pasteur 1822 – 1895
  48. George Orwell 1903 – 1950
  49. Pope John Paul II 1920 – 2005
  50. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
  51. Margaret Thatcher 1925 – 2013
  52. James Joyce 1882 – 1941
  53. Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
  54. Richard Wagner 1813 – 1883
  55. Fidel Castro 1926 – 2016
  56. Yuri Gagarin 1934 – 1968
  57. J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 – 1973
  58. Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
  59. Marlene Dietrich 1901 – 1992
  60. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947
  61. Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 – 2022
  62. Benito Mussolini 1883 – 1945
  63. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980
  64. Stephen Hawking 1942 – 2018
  65. Friedrich Engels 1820 – 1895
  66. Le Corbusier 1887 – 1965
  67. Frida Kahlo 1907 – 1954
  68. Mother Teresa 1910 – 1997
  69. Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024
  70. Pope Benedict XVI 1927 – 2022
  71. Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972
  72. Agatha Christie 1890 – 1976
  73. Hillary Clinton born 1947
  74. George H. W. Bush 1924 – 2018
  75. Sarah Bernhardt 1844 – 1923
  76. Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986
  77. Alfred Nobel 1833 – 1896
  78. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893
  79. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 – 1964
  81. Marcel Proust 1871 – 1922
  82. Roald Amundsen 1872 – c. 1928
  83. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 – 1969
  84. Jules Verne 1828 – 1905
  85. Woodrow Wilson 1856 – 1924
  86. Rosa Luxemburg 1871 – 1919
  87. Alan Turing 1912 – 1954
  88. Richard Nixon 1913 – 1994
  89. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936
  90. Alfred Hitchcock 1899 – 1980
  91. Noam Chomsky born 1928
  92. John Maynard Keynes 1883 – 1946
  93. Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1986
  94. George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 1950
  95. Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970
  96. Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
  97. Leon Trotsky 1879 – 1940
  98. John Lennon 1940 – 1980
  99. Bob Dylan born 1941
  100. Muammar Gaddafi 1942 – 2011
  101. Max Planck 1858 – 1947
  102. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 – 1930
  103. Pelé 1940 – 2022
  104. Muhammad Ali 1942 – 2016
  105. Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936
  106. Henri Matisse 1869 – 1954
  107. Giuseppe Verdi 1813 – 1901
  108. Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907
  109. Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959
  110. Louis Armstrong 1901 – 1971
  111. Andy Warhol 1928 – 1987
  112. Kofi Annan 1938 – 2018
  113. Charles III born 1948
  114. Queen Victoria 1819 – 1901
  115. Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
  116. Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998
  117. Lech Wałęsa born 1943
  118. Freddie Mercury 1946 – 1991
  119. Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 – 1973
  120. Gerald Ford 1913 – 2006
  121. Ernest Rutherford 1871 – 1937
  122. Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
  123. Indira Gandhi 1917 – 1984
  124. Max Weber 1864 – 1920
  125. Huang Xianfan 1899 – 1982
  126. Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
  127. Enrico Fermi 1901 – 1954
  128. Naguib Mahfouz 1911 – 2006
  129. Saddam Hussein 1937 – 2006
  130. Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945
  131. Steven Spielberg born 1946
  132. Nikita Khrushchev 1894 – 1971
  133. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
  134. Anne Frank 1929 – 1945
  135. H. G. Wells 1866 – 1946
  136. Helen Keller 1880 – 1968
  137. 14th Dalai Lama born 1935
  138. Pablo Neruda 1904 – 1973
  139. Émile Zola 1840 – 1902
  140. Thomas Mann 1875 – 1955
  141. Igor Stravinsky 1882 – 1971
  142. Bruce Lee 1940 – 1973
  143. David Hilbert 1862 – 1943
  144. Erwin Schrödinger 1887 – 1961
  145. Silvio Berlusconi 1936 – 2023
  146. Bob Marley 1945 – 1981
  147. James Clerk Maxwell 1831 – 1879
  148. Herbert Hoover 1874 – 1964
  149. Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962
  150. Isaac Asimov c. 1920 – 1992